I'm running Windows 7 32-Bit on my new laptop and have problems launching most portable apps regardless if they come from here or are other portable apps.
If I do a standard startup they claim I don't have rights to use the registry. I have to right click and choose Run-As-Administrator.
The program does launch but shows noting. I have to kill the process in 'Task Manager' manually.
Is there a way to have Windows 7 remember what apps have the rights to run as administrator? Is there a way or tool to give the \portableapps folder and all its apps administrator rights by default? So the next time I install or upgrade a app it runs as administrator by default.
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If you are like me, running portable apps from the hard drive, you can do just that.
Right click the exe file, choose properties and then select compatibility
At the bottom, check the box titled 'run this program as an administrator' and select OK to save.
I'm not sure if that will work from a USB drive or not, might be worth a try.
Almost none of our apps require admin rights. The HKCU area of the registry is read and written just fine by Limited accounts. The only exceptions would be JkDefrag (which requires them for access to the hard drives) and GnuCash (which only requires admin for online banking and works just fine without it). All our other apps work just fine without admin rights.
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I don't know but this appears to have changed recently. After the last windows updates. Firefox, Utorrent, Sumatra PDF, and a host of others that use NSIS installers to write to the registry are suddenly requiring run as admin in order to run, heck even my installed scanner software for my scanner only seems to be working if it's run as admin now.
There's nothing new in the apps themselves that would cause this behavior. And I haven't encountered it in my usage on Windows 8.1 x64 here. If you could provide information about your setup (Windows version, install path, antivirus running, etc), I could try to reproduce the behavior in one of my VMs to see if it's something we can assist you with.
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Windows 8.1 Professional x64
Nod32 Antivirus 7
All portableapps are installed to D:\Pub\Bin\
it's a Dell xps720, intel 4 core processor, 6gb ram
Just started happening recently, once I go into the property's of the (whatever)Portable.exe I have to go to Compatibility and change it to run as Administrator, which is annoying, but seems to make it clear up. I think it has to do with the installer accessing the registry, but I'm not sure.
I am typically accessing the system through teamviewer, but the apps are installed to that path locally on a hard drive and the described behavior was doing it when I was local to the machine. I use the portable apps so when/if I have to reinstall the system I don't have to reinstall all the apps that I use on that system. Lowers my downtime significantly in those instances.
Different apps are producing this behavior now. I think there was some change to windows through some update. I still have not found a solution for this on my computer.
There's no change on our end. And no changes within Windows that I can see. The only time I've seen this behavior is with NTFS permissions issues (DropMyRights, Admin install Limited run, etc) or on corporate/domain PCs where they lock it down so only installed apps can access the registry and certain files.
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Yeah... this may or may not be the same... I run into required Admin rights a lot in the Utilities section - some of it is understandable, but some won't run *at all* w/o admin rights. Currently I cannot get Spybot to run (errors out) nor any product from Wise Software?
All the wise apps require admin rights because you can't uninstall an app, clean a disk, run data recovery, or clean the registry without admin rights on Windows. That's the way it works. Nearly all of Spybot requires admin rights to work, so you'll need to enable it. I'm not surprised it errors out. We may switch it to simply require admin full stop.
The above is completely separate from the issue being discussed above which was likely related to file permissions.
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